| Apple confirms a problem with its fancy speakers, a bike-sharing startup raises $70 million and a unicode symbol crashes Mac and iOS devices. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for February 15, 2018. 1. Apple confirms HomePods can leave marks on wood surfaces, updates support page with notice Apparently the adverse reaction between wood and silicone is a known issue, and not one that's specific to HomePods. Apple says, "The marks can be caused by oils diffusing between the silicone base and the table surface, and will often go away after several days when the speaker is removed from the wooden surface." Still, paying $349 for a fancy speaker and then seeing it leave marks on your furniture has to be frustrating. 
2. Samsung's Notebook 9 Pen is a reasonably capable convertible My colleague Brian Heater says that bringing Samsung's stylus to its line of laptops is "not an essential addition by any means," but it does allow the company to pursue the same creators that Microsoft's been going after. 3. LimeBike raises $70M as the bike-sharing battle rages on The funding comes from real estate-focused firm Fifth Wall, whose Managing Partner Brendan Wallace said bike sharing is "something real estate owners really want." 4. UK accuses Russia of 2017's NotPetya ransomware attacks Russia has denied the latest charge — as it also did last year, when the UK prime minister directly accused Vladimir Putin of seeking to weaponize information in order to create social division and influence elections in the West. 5. CommonSense Robotics raises $20M for robotics tech for online grocery fulfilment CommonSense Robotics claims to enable retailers — even relatively small ones — to offer one hour, on-demand grocery deliveries to consumers "at a profitable margin". It does this by employing robots to power bespoke warehouses or micro-fulfilment centers that are small enough to be placed in urban areas rather than miles away on the outskirts of town. 6. This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single unicode symbol During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser discovered two unicode symbols in a non-English language that can crash any Apple device that uses the company's default San Francisco font. 7. Facebook teams up with Lyft and others for crisis response efforts Facebook bringing on more Community Help partners, with Lyft, Chase, International Medical Corps and Save the Children using the features to easily provide information and services, like food, transportation and shelter, to people in crisis. | 
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